I feel that this project should never have even started, because it's
implausible even on physical grounds. But, having said that.. they
could have just declared it a "fail" and walked away, at least they're
still trying to deliver something that would interest their backers.

I'm not super hopeful, but it's better than nothing. I've got no "skin
in the game" though as I never backed the project to begin with.

Whatever hopes we ever had of getting Kickstarter to stop banning
bioscience projects is slimmer now, though; the credibility is burned
and there hasn't been as much advocacy to lift the ban as there was to
instate it.

For my part, I'll still never back something on Kickstarter as long as
the ban remains. They only introduced it at the behest of the
anti-science swarm, there is no rational basis to it.